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• Fire in the rearview mirror (AU Joel Miller x Runaway!Reader) by themology

  Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  06 Jun 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Joel (The Last of Us)
  • Sarah (The Last of Us)
  • Tommy (The Last of Us)
  • Inspired by an Ethel Cain Song
  • Joel (The Last of Us) Played by Pedro Pascal
  • Top Pedro Pascal
  • Pedro Pascal Smut
  • Rough Sex
  • Sex
  • Age Difference
  • Porn
  • Porn With Plot
  • Joel is Bad at Feelings (The Last of Us)
  • Joel Lives (The Last of Us)
  • Alternate Universe
  • Daddy Issues
  • Dark
  • Dark Fic Fest
  • Smoking
  • Portland Oregon
  • Grumpy Joel (The Last of Us)
  • Power Imbalance
  • Power Dynamics
  • Car Sex
  • Sex in a Car
  • Blow Jobs in a Car
  • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
  • Secret Relationship
  • Unhealthy Relationships
  • Vaginal Sex
  • Vaginal Fingering
  • Penis In Vagina Sex
  • Squirting and Vaginal Ejaculation
  • Cock Slut
  • Gaslighting
  • Semi-Public Sex
  • Angst
  • Angst and Fluff and Smut
  • Angst and Porn
  • POV Experimental

  Summary

  a runaway girl and a grieving man drive through the belly of a burning america—fucking, fleeing, forgetting. she’s his ghost in the passenger seat; he’s her ruin in the driver’s side. they don’t call it love. they just never stop driving.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,690

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  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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